This document provides information about upcoming events at First Baptist Church in Jackson, Mississippi. It announces a prayer conference on March 25-26 with Dr. Greg Frizzell speaking. It encourages members to volunteer as "Prayer Warriors" to visit church families throughout April and pray with them. It also advertises several upcoming Sunday school classes and a banquet in April honoring church staff. The bulk of the document consists of commentary on Philippians 3:10, focusing on Paul's desire to know Christ personally, experience His power, and have fellowship through sufferings. It emphasizes that saving faith motivates works and living for God, not idleness.

1. PHILIPPIANS 3:10
March 4, 2012
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
JACKSON, MISSISSIPPI

2. GOING DEEPER with GOD
CONFERENCE
Led by Dr. Greg Frizzell
Sunday, March 25 &
Monday, March 26

3. *On Sunday, March 25 ALL
ADULTS will meet in
Fellowship Hall East.
*This will take the place of
our Sunday School class on
March 25th at 9 am.

4. "Praying For Our Jerusalem"
Acts 1:8
Praying For Our Jerusalem is
a prayer effort by which we
attempt to go into every
home of our church family

5. for the sole purpose of
praying with the people in
that home.
It is that simple.
No gimmicks, no signing up
for something, just to pray.

6. Prayer Warriors will visit up
to four homes and pray with
our church family from April
1-30.
Dr. Frank Page will lead a
Training Session for all

7. enlisted Prayer Warriors
TODAY at 4:45 p.m. in
Fellowship Hall East.
This prayer emphasis will be
a life changing event for
each of us individually and

8. for our church family.
*Prayer is a double blessing:
*It blesses those on the
praying end and those on
the receiving end.

9. If you know someone willing
to serve as a Prayer Warrior,
who will be going into 4
homes during April 1-30 and
pray with our church family,
please call Trish Jenkins at

10. (601) 949-1941 or
e-mail her at:
pjenkins@fbcj.org

11. BREATH OF LIFE
A SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS
FOR THOSE WITH A
CHRONIC COUGH
*TIME: 8 AM APRIL 15th
*PLACE: ROOM E423

12. Thank You for Serving
banquet to honor waiters &
waitresses at: The South,
627 East Silas Brown
Jackson, MS 39201
Monday, April 23rd 6-8 pm

13. MARK THE DATE. . .
FRIEND DAY
SUNDAY, APRIL 29th

14. The MacArthur New
Testament Commentary,
Copyright © Moody Press
and John MacArthur, Jr.,
1983-2007.

15. *Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Bible Commentary
*Barclay's Daily Study Bible
(NT)

16. *J. Vernon McGee's
Thru The Bible
Wiersbe Expository Outlines

17. Philippians 3:9b
9b “ the righteousness
which comes from God on
the basis of faith”

18. *Paul was very religious
before he was saved, but his
religion could not save him.
*He had to lose his religion
in order to find eternal life!

19. Three sins a day:
3 x 365.25 = 1095.75 sins/yr
(78 – 12 = 66 years life span)
66 years x 1095.75 = 72,319.5

20. Paul gladly shed the
threadbare robe of his own
righteousness and stretched
out his empty hands to
receive the glorious royal
robe of God's righteousness.

21. So now we come to:
Philippians 3:10

22. 10“that I may know Him
and the power of His
resurrection and the
fellowship of His sufferings,
being conformed to His
death;” Philippians 3:10

23. “that I may know Him”:
personally (intimately)
powerfully (resurrection)
passionately (sufferings)!

24. Philippians 3:10 a
“that I may know Him”
(personally)
Philippians 3:10 a

25. *To know Him personally is
more than merely to know a
doctrine about Him.
*The Holy Spirit brings us
not only to redemption, but
to the Redeemer Himself.

26. To know Him: in Hebrew the
verb is ‘yada' and in Greek it
is translated by ‘ginoskein’.
This verb indicates the most
intimate knowledge of
another person.

27. To know Christ is to know
Him with such intimacy that
in the end we are as united
with Him as we are with
those whom we love here
on earth.

28. That initial saving
knowledge of Christ became
the basis of Paul's lifelong
pursuit of an ever deeper
(intimate) knowledge of His
Savior. (by sanctification)

29. *Paul is no longer going to
try to build up legalistic
righteousness.
*He isn't going to see how
religious and pious he can
be any more.

30. *Since he has changed his
bookkeeping system of the
past, Paul has also changed
his purpose for the present.

31. *Like Paul, since we have
been saved by faith, we now
have:
a new motivation,
a new life purpose,
a new life-style.

32. Some people get the
impression that being saved
by faith means there is no
motivation for:
1) godly conduct or for
2) works done in faith.

33. *They think that if a person
is saved by grace it must
mean he just sits around
and twiddles his thumbs.
*Nothing could be further
from the truth.

34. Saving faith is a faith that
moves us.
James 2:18
18 …“I will show you my
faith by my works.”
(faith-works not law-works)

35. Paul dissipates any notion
that being saved by faith
means you can sit in a
rocking chair and rock
yourself all the way to
Heaven.

36. Paul exhibits an effort and
an energy that is derived
from the Holy Spirit, which
is far greater than any
legalistic effort.

37. Under the Law, Saul was so
zealous that he was willing
to go to Damascus to stamp
out the followers of Christ.

38. *But now, under the grace-
faith system, he will go to
the ends of the earth to
make followers of Christ and
to witness for Him.
*Faith produces good fruit!

39. *Your faith in Christ is a
motivation for you to live for
God.
*That is the reason Paul
went on to live as he did –
as should we.

40. Motivation - Greg Frizzell
said on page 73 of his book:
How to Develop a Powerful
Prayer Life “that in 1981,
God led him to begin
praying through all nine fruit

41. of the Spirit. To this day, I
have never found anything
that comes close to the
power of daily praying these
character words for my own
spiritual growth.”

42. *“that we may know Him” –
experientially, personally,
intimately.
*That’s the aim of the
"righteousness" just
mentioned in Phil 3:9.

43. Some saints give the
impression that they have
complete knowledge and
they only need to polish
their halo every morning.

44. Yet Paul, the greatest
missionary the world has
ever seen, said at the end of
his life; "My ambition is still
to know Christ personally,
intimately.”

45. *The cry of Paul’s heart was
“that I may know Him”
(personally, intimately).
*Paul also longed to
experience the power of
Christ’s resurrection.

46. Philippians 3:10 b
10 “that I may know Him
(personally) and the power
of His resurrection”
(powerfully)

47. *Life pushes us (those who
are saved and those who are
lost) to our destinations:
either to Heaven or to Hell.
*A lost soul is never too
dead for a resurrection!

48. *Paul knew there was no
power in the Law.
*He also knew there was no
power in his flesh to
overcome sin or serve God
(Rom 7:18).

49. 18 “For I know that nothing
good dwells in me, that is, in
my flesh; for the willing is
present in me, but the doing
of the good is not.”
Romans 7:18

50. Because he knew Christ and
had His righteousness
imparted to him, Paul had
been given the Holy Spirit.
The same spiritual power
that raised Jesus from the

51. dead now enabled him to
accomplish the work God
had sent him to do.
*The resurrection was and is
the greatest display of
Christ's power! (Rom 1:16)

52. Rising from the dead
revealed Christ’ absolute
power over both the
physical and spiritual
realms.

53. It is the resurrection power
that saved us, a truth Paul
affirmed in Romans 6:4-5:
4) "Therefore we have been
buried with Him through
baptism into death,

54. so that as Christ was raised
from the dead through the
glory of the Father, so we
too might walk in newness
of life.

55. 5) For if we have become
united with Him in the
likeness of His death,
certainly we shall also be in
the likeness of His
resurrection.” Romans 6:4-5

56. *At salvation, we are
identified with Christ both in
His death and in His
resurrection.

57. But more than that, it is
Christ's resurrection power
that sanctifies us to defeat
temptation and trials, lead a
holy life, and fruitfully
proclaim the Gospel.

58. *Paul gladly exchanged his
impotence for Christ's
potency –
His resurrection power!
*Paul desired to experience
its fullness as should we.

59. Philippians 3:10
10“that I may know Him
(personally) and the power
of His resurrection
(powerfully) and the
fellowship of His sufferings,”

60. Philippians 3:10 c
“and the fellowship of His
sufferings,”
(know Him passionately).

61. That we may know Him:
personally
powerfully and
passionately.
Philippians 3:10

62. We are conformed to His
death at salvation(Rom6:4-5)
*But Paul has something
more in mind here, a deep
partnership and communion
with Christ in His suffering.

63. When he met Christ, Paul
gained a Companion to be
with him in his suffering —
One Who endured far more
intense persecution and
suffering than anyone else

64. who ever lived, all of it
undeserved.

65. The deepest moments of
spiritual fellowship with the
living Christ are at times of
intense suffering;
suffering drives us to Him.

66. "I walked a mile with
Pleasure
She chattered all the way;
And left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.

67. I walked a mile with Sorrow
And not a word said she;
But oh, the things I learned
from her
When Sorrow walked with
me.“ Robert B. Hamilton

68. “In this world you will have
tribulation, but be of good
cheer, for I have overcome
the world.”
Jesus Christ
John 16:33

69. “God had one Son on earth
without sin, but never one
without suffering.”
Augustine
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